Will the price of oil drop in 2022?
Most analysts expect oil prices to remain around $100 per barrel for the remainder of 2022 and 2023. They cite that the oil market has not fully priced in a recession, which tends to drop oil prices by around 40%.
Goldman Sachs raised its 2022 Brent price forecast to $104 per barrel from $99 per barrel and 2023 forecast to $110 per barrel from $108 per barrel.
When will fuel prices go down? Towards the end of July 2022, fuel prices at the pumps finally started falling. The latest fuel prices, as of 17 October 2022, are 164.46p for petrol and 186.23p for diesel. However, while petrol prices are expected to be stable, diesel prices are predicted to rise.
WTI oil price forecast: 2022 to 2023
Fitch Solutions predicted WTI to average $100/bbl this year, dropping to $81/bbl in 2023. On 12 October, the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecast WTI to average $95.74/bbl in 2022, dropping to $88.58 in 2023.
Sept 30 (Reuters) - A recent oil price decline could slow in the last quarter of the year and into 2023 as focus shifts from concerns over a recessionary hit to demand to tightening global supply, a Reuters poll showed on Friday.
According to the MAHB, the world's oil reserves will run out by 2052, natural gas by 2060 and coal by 2090.
Prices. The Brent crude oil spot price in our forecast averages $93 per barrel (b) in the fourth quarter of 2022 (4Q22) and $95/b in 2023.
World oil demand is now forecast at 99.7 mb/d in 2022 and 101.8 mb/d in 2023.
In its latest Commodity Markets Outlook, the World Bank projected that Brent crude will average $92 a barrel in 2023 before easing to $80 in 2024--still well above the five-year average of $60.
On 7 October, the EIA forecast retail gasoline prices to average $3.80/gal in the fourth quarter and to fall to average $3.57/gal in 2023. As of 24 October, in its gasoline price forecast for 2022, Trading Economics projected the fuel to trade at $2.75/gal by the end of this quarter.
Why fuel prices are still high?
What other factors are affecting fuel prices? Tight refining supply has caused the gap between wholesale gasoline futures and retail prices to remain wide this year. It currently sits at about $1.30 a gallon, compared with an average of 88 cents over the past five years.
Fuel prices went up between 7% and 12% on October 16, 2022
According to the Institute for Energy Security (IES), this was due to the increases in price of the products on the international market, and the significant decline in the value of the local currency against the American greenback or US dollar.

Another reason oil prices have fallen is that the U.S. dollar has strengthened against other currencies. Because oil is traded in dollars, the fuel becomes more expensive to individuals and businesses in countries with weaker currencies even if there is no change in the underlying price of oil.
On Monday, news of a slowing Chinese economy and a cut in Chinese interest rates sent prices down further, to less than $90 a barrel for the American benchmark. Gasoline prices have fallen every day over the last nine weeks, to an average of less than $4 nationwide, and prices of jet fuel and diesel are easing as well.
While prices are expected to rebound by later this year, the outlook for next year is slightly more gloomy, with several firms predicting oil will fall below $100 per barrel in 2023.
You should consider bulk buying your heating oil in the summer to stock up before the autumn and winter ahead; this should deliver you the best savings. However, wider events can also impact the price of heating oil, so the best time to buy home heating oil isn't set in stone.
Oil and the Cost of Doing Business
A drop in fuel prices means lower transport costs and cheaper airline tickets. As many industrial chemicals are refined from oil, lower oil prices benefit the manufacturing sector.
The oil industry is dying – scarcity brought on by Russian sanctions won't change that. To survive, the oil industry needs to invest trillions in low carbon technologies, but rising prices and short term supply pains might tempt companies to drill, baby, drill instead.
By 1906, that number was 126 million barrels per year. Today, the U.S. produces about 6.8 billion barrels of oil every year. According to OPEC, more than 70 million barrels are produced worldwide every day. That is almost 49,000 barrels per minute.
New research is suggesting as much as half of the world's fossil fuel assets could become worthless within the next 15 years. Governments across the globe will need to plan for a future without oil and gas in order to prevent a potential economic crisis.
How long until oil runs out?
The world has proven reserves equivalent to 46.6 times its annual consumption levels. This means it has about 47 years of oil left (at current consumption levels and excluding unproven reserves).
Investing in the oil and gas industry carries a number of significant risks. Three of those risks are commodity price volatility risk, cutting of dividend payments for those companies that pay them, and the possibility of an oil spill or another accident during the production of oil or natural gas.
The world would literally grind to a halt if oil was not available. Nearly two-thirds of the world's oil consumption is used to fuel our various modes of transport, from airplanes and cars to buses and cargo ships.
Year | Mid-Year | Year-End |
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2024 | $74.95 | $86.05 |
2025 | $98.96 | $88.26 |
2026 | $89.83 | $98.81 |
2027 | $107.70 | $116.51 |
U.S. crude production is expected to increase by about 480,000 barrels per day (bpd) to 12.31 million bpd, the EIA said, down from a prior 610,000 bpd growth forecast. Still, U.S. oil production in 2023 will top 2019's record 12.29 million bpd output.